‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Clip Hints At The Klingon Cameo (Plus Character Posters)

Qapla’! We already knew there would be fourteen Klingons in Star Trek Into Darkness and two of them would have speaking roles. We’ve also heard Klingon homeworld, Quo’nos, would have an appearance. Now Paramount has released a clip we’re guessing may involve those Klingons.

In the clip Kirk and Spock are being pursued by what appears to be a variation of the Klingon Bird of Prey. Kirk then takes their ship through a space Spock thinks is too narrow. It reminded us of the Millennium Falcon in this scene from Return of the Jedi.

It’s almost like J.J. Abrams is trying to convince us he’s the right director for Star Wars: Episode VII.

“In the clip Kirk and Spock are being pursued by what appears to be a variation of the Klingon Bird of Prey. Kirk then takes their ship through a space Spock thinks is too narrow. It reminded us of the Millennium Falcon in this scene from Return of the Jedi.”

Not to mention all the Tie Fighter sound fx used for the Bird of Prey. The Star Wars parallels in the first film were okay but now you’re using actual assets from the series is getting to be a bit much. But I guess that’s what you get for having Ben Burtt as your sound designer. Stop getting your Star Wars Chocolate in my Star Trek Peanut Butter!

Very excited about this film. My husband and I are taking a holiday the week of its release and have booked tickets to see this on a proper big screen. Haven’t booked the holiday just to see the film, it just happened to be a very happy coincidence…honest!

I bet there’s a draft of the script out there with Spock telling Kirk that the odds of successfully fitting through that tunnel are 3,720 to 1. That was just too familiar, almost treading into Emmerich/Devlin levels of movie lifting.